Here's an article from Vox that may help provide broader context of the proposed laws. 

 

https://www.vox.com/23021971/florida-gay-trans-lgbtq-laws

I'm sure we can dumb down complex ideas like sexuality and gender to something positive that children can understand without getting into nitty gritty they don't have the foundation upon to discuss anyway. Like the book mentioned above that talks about having two moms or two dads. Otherwise it's like saying we can't teach math to K-3rd grade either because they're too young for calculus.

 

Put into terms that Chazz seems to understand. I'm sure most would agree it's okay to teach children not to judge others for who they are or who they love. But these stupid, overly broad, laws prohibit that kind of discussion.
 

8 hours ago, Chazz Michael Michaels said:

If you can remember what you were thinking about in K-3, congratulations.  I cannot.  

Having said that, we are again talking about two different things.  Teachers should always feel empowered to support student that may be different for whatever the reason vs. required learning as part of a curriculum.  

 

 

 

I remember going along as we visited prospective preschools for me. I remember asking a girl at the playground what it's like to be 3. She said "It's no different." Meanwhile my mother is one of those people that can't remember anything before age 10 and couldn't even in her 20s. She doesn't remember her house not having running water or a bathroom, having taking a bath in a washtub or anything like that even though they didn't add a bathroom until she was 8. We even have pictures. Memories in early childhood vary.

Ohio GOP Introduces Legislation Banning Critical Race Theory in Schools

 

The newest bill to regulate school curriculums and keep out what legislators see as “divisive concepts” entered the Ohio House on Tuesday.

 

State Reps. Jean Schmidt, R-Loveland, and Mike Loychik, R-Bazetta, brought House Bill 616 to the State and Local Committee, which prohibits all Ohio schools from “teaching or providing training that promotes or endorses divisive or inherently racist concepts.”

 

Though the co-sponsors said they want to deputize the State Board of Education with making decisions about what those concepts would be, the bill includes “critical race theory,” a misnomer used by conservatives to refer to the teaching of race in American history, and name the “1619 Project,” a New York Times project that laid out the chronology of slavery and racism, as concepts that would be prohibited under the bill.

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This is the third “divisive concepts” bill to come through the Ohio legislature, with the last bill receiving heavy criticism after one of the co-sponsors said equal time should be given on both sides of Holocaust lessons. Neither bill has passed through the General Assembly.

 

More below:

https://columbusunderground.com/ohio-gop-introduces-legislation-banning-critical-race-theory-in-schools-ocj1/

 

'THIS IS A BLACK EYE FOR THE STATE'

While many celebrate Pride Month across Ohio, some advocates, politicians and business leaders worry that state legislators are creating a divide.

 

Letha Pugh opened Bake Me Happy, a gluten-free bakery in Columbus, with her wife about eight years ago.

 

She said she has seen the city and Central Ohio open its arms to the LGBTQ community, including small businesses such as hers.

 

But legislative efforts in Ohio that focus on sexuality have her wondering whether business owners and workers will leave the state for more welcoming areas.

 

“Things like this promote a false narrative that being proud of your identity, who you are, or having a discussion about it is perverse or predatory,” Pugh said.

 

“It’s just very divisive and very disappointing.”

 

More below:

https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2022/06/03/pride-dont-say-gay-race-bills-legislature-ohio.html